Word: titular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, slim, blond young brothers are sleeping in the thick-walled Tower of London. The elder, newly crowned King Edward V of England and titular head of England's contentious royal House of York, sleeps restlessly. His diseased teeth ache and he has been crying. Young King Edward's companion, his younger brother, Richard Duke of York, has been crying no less...
...fool, Dino Bratianu knows that Rumania's Treasury is the real political prize. He became Finance Minister last week, leaving the Premiership to stern Dr. Ion Duca, titular Leader of the National Liberal Party. At once the new-Cabinet adopted a characteristic Bratianu policy: suppression of freedom of the press. Twelve pro-Peasant newspapers had their entire editions confiscated. For good measure Premier Duca suppressed two small parties of the ultraRight, the Iron Guards and the anti-Semitic National Christian Defense League. In a wholesale, nationwide shakeup local prefects were ousted and replaced by Bratianu men. "These new officials...
...only 46 because it approved his work as pedagog during the past decade. In Washington some 2,000 people crowded into the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of Catholic University of America, to see the consecration of its rector, Most Rev. James Hugh Ryan, as Titular Bishop of Modra...
...titular bishopric is an honorary assignment to an ancient, disused see. Modra was in Asia Minor...
...backbone of the Dollfuss Government. Once a friend of Adolf Hitler, he fought beside him in the Munich "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923, broke away when he suddenly realized that Handsome Adolf was committed not only to the conquest of Germany but the absorption of Austria. He is still titular head of the Heimwehr but the direction of it has been quietly taken out from under him by one of his own lieutenants, the Heimwehr commander of the Vienna district, Major Emil Fey, who is in addition Austria's Minister of Public Safety...